The National Finance Center

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Office of the Chief Financial Officer
The National Finance Center
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John Ortego, Director, NFC
NFC Customer Briefing, November 17, 1999
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• Payroll/Personnel System
• Implemented 2 payroll/personnel clients
• Payrolled 450,000 timely and accurately
• Modified the Payroll/Personnel system for
• Employee Express- Savings Bonds
• Transit Subsidy
• I-Bonds
• FEGLI
• TOPS

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• Developed new Payroll/Personnel products
• EPIC
• PODS
• STAR
• Payroll Personnel Interface

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• Compliant with DCIA
• WEB applications
• EARN
• Expanded Employee Personal Page
• Improved Cash Reconciliation
• Established Customer Representatives

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Link to article on Employee Personal Page Award
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• Disbursed 35B
• Collected 10B
• Processed over 30M transactions
• Continued Y2K efforts
• Reduced costs
• Supported legacy systems

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• Expanded PCMS functionality
• Managed TSP for 2.48M participants
• Supported new TSP system development

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• Payroll/Personnel System
• Pay local travel on TA
• Individual election of electronic EL
• Modifications for new TSP system
• Release
• PODS version 1.6
• STAR version 1.0
• EPIC version 2.0

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• Thrift Savings Plan
• Supporting migration to daily valuation system
• infrastructure
• convert files
• acceptance testing
• Plan
• transition - April
• production - May

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• Expanding the WEB
• Personal Benefits Statements
• EL election form
• Ethics Reporting System
• CEAS

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• Implement new Payroll/Personnel customers
• Implement Legislative mandates

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Link to NFC Y2K Rollover Plan
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• Managing Costs
• Continue to reduce overhead and common costs
• Reduce staff on end game systems
• Implement new billing algorithm for FY 2001

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My Commitment

• Absorb technology and cost of living increases

• Absorb Y2K costs

• 3 year fixed or declining costs

What about next year, John?
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New Payroll Engine

• Baseline
• Current payroll engine successfully services
  450,000 employees
• Sixteen year-old system difficult to maintain and
  change
• Customer demanding data utilization not simply
  timely, accurate, or cost-effective payroll

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New Payroll Engine

• Need
• Support decision making
• More tightly data integrated with human resource
  and financial systems
• Responsive to unique, diverse, and evolving
  Federal payroll environment

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New Payroll Engine

• Goals
• Strategy that serves well all stake holders
• Serve better and grow client base
• Minimize client agency investment
• Flexible and easily maintained system
• Fast to market

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New Payroll Engine

• Concept
• Partner with industry
• industry provides
• COTS
• programming labor
• government provides
• requirements
• subject matter expertise
• infrastructure

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New Payroll Engine

• Procurement Strategy
• Share in success
• transaction based revenue stream
• A COTS Federal pay engine
• partner profits from NFC client base growth
• Share in risk
• up front investment with no guaranteed revenue
• no pay no pay

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New Payroll Engine

• Procurement Strategy
• Statement of Objectives
• Limited procurement
• Due diligence

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Long-term Vision
Administrative Manager of Federal Employee Record
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Long-term Vision

• Advantages
• Offers reliable consolidated data
• Cost effective
• Single point for service

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Long-term Vision

• Why NFC
• Experience in providing government-wide services
  
• TSP recordkeeping
• Payroll/Personnel
• Direct Premium Remittance
• Demonstrated ability to serve diverse client base
• Repository of subject matter expertise

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Help Us

• Need your feedback
• What are your most pressing needs?
• What are your technology plans?
• What are your thoughts on our long-term
  direction?
• Written input by late-January is vital!

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